Hi Rick,
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I sort of lost track of the thread and have been busy with a couple freelance projects, my day job, and my daughter recovering from a tonsillectomy.
Anyway, it seems like this conversation has moved away from general interest, so perhaps we should continue off-list. I'll try to respond to your questions below tomorrow. If you use IM, send me your info and I'll ping you sometime tomorrow.
--Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Jan 19, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote:
Hi, Karl... Have we stalled out on this project? I've been concerned aboutasking too much of you. If you want to transition this to a paid project,just let me know! Rick-----Original Message-----From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RickFaircloth Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:05 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Still working out "drop-down div menu"... Well... my attempts to fix the details div showing with contentdidn't work. At least I think I changed all the padding and line- heights that I attempted to change back to the way they were. However, now theissue seems to have "disappeared"! Whatever... as long as it works!The last issue I see now is that *sometimes* when I move the mouse between menu items, especially the home and buyers menu items, the details- div slides up and the details content remains on the screen. It's not always that way, but itdoes happen in both IE and FF. Any ideas on that?From what I can tell, you've taken the route of separating the actual div with the details from the div that slides down. Is that part of what complicates the synchronization of the "display div" and the "content" or "details" div?Would it be simpler to actually put the details *inside* the display div to eliminate the possibility of details being left on the screen without the background div?It would seem that placing the details actually in the display div would tied them together so that if the display div is visible, the details must be, too, and vice versa.And, this is just minor at this point, the details would actually be sliding up and downwith the display div. Looks like this may be a "two-wish-list-gift" assistance! :o) Thanks, Rick-----Original Message-----From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RickFaircloth Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:17 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Still working out "drop-down div menu"... Ok... thanks, Karl. It seems to be working better. I'm going to make a change in the padding of the ul, #id="ul-index" because the bottom of the li's contained therein aren't currently reaching as far down as the #menu-index... there's a gap of about 6px at the bottom which allows the details div to expend without showing the menu content. My initial results show this solution will work. I'll make you mods first, then mine, then test on IE6, IE7, and FF2 (Windows All) and report back. Thanks, again for all the work! Rick-----Original Message-----From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KarlSwedberg Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:28 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Still working out "drop-down div menu"... Hi Rick,After several failed attempts, I think I have this working for you. I had to set a flag for the menu-details div's visibility (I called it "bVis"). It's initially set to false. In the mouseover argument of $ ('#menu-index').hover(...), it gets set to true in the callback of $('div.menu-details').slideDown(). It thengets reset to false on mouseout.Then for the mouseover argument of ... .find('li').hover(), it does aslide down of the corresponding div if bVis is false and asimple .show() if it's true. Worked in my limited testing with FF 2 Mac.http://test.learningjquery.com/c21.html --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote:Thanks, Karl! This is a chance, too, for me to find out what the "expander" plug-in is! Haven't heard of that one, yet... Rick-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Swedberg Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:46 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Still working out "drop-down div menu"... Hey Rick, Glad to hear that you're making progress! I'll take a look at the page again tonight and offer a suggestion (and possibly a demo) for getting the content to slide down with that details div.Only because you asked ... you can find a link to my amazon.com wishlist on my Expander plugin page: http://plugins.learningjquery.com/expander/(wow, I just shamelessly promoted my plugin AND publicly announcedwhere my wish list could be found. Brazen!) --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote:I got the changes implemented that you made, Karl and things are working very well! I've still got to study just what you did to see if I understand it. About the last issue I'm facing is how the details div and content for that div is displaying. If you'll go to http://c21ar.wsm-dev.com and mouse over the "Buyers" menu link, you'll see what I'm talking about. The div slides in perfectly, but the content, actually being outside the div (I've got to check that...) is being displayed before the div completely drops down. Ideally, the content would drop down with the div. Any way to modify things so the content slides down with the div? I willlook at the code, but without understanding how it's all working,I'm afraid to make many changes. Any ideas? I really appreciate your help! Rick PS - And I'm still looking for that wish list! You've gone "above and beyond" helping on this project with the coding and rebuilding the site demoing your changes and I want to show my appreciation! :o) Got a wish list on Amazon?-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Faircloth Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:53 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Still working out "drop-down div menu"... That looks great, Karl! And I see the changing content, also! Where's your wish list? :o) Rick-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Swedberg Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:18 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.comSubject: [jQuery] Re: Still working out "drop-down div menu"...On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote:@Karl: Hi, Karl... and thanks for the reply! I appreciate the work you did on the site. The problem I noticed right away is that when thelink is moused-off, then the corresponding details div slides up.The details for each menu link will need to stay down until a user mouses over it and then back off or until the user moves horizontallyto a new menu link. The details div is not just for information,but will contain more links for users to click.Hey Rick, No problem. Let me guess: you're using Internet Explorer, right? ;-) It was working fine for me in FF, but because of a minute differencein where the browsers were positioning the top of each li's div,and because of a weird z-index issue in IE, it was borking in IE.Take a look again. It should be working fine now. You'll want tograbthe style rule out of the <head> and put it in c21ar-ie7.css andc21ar- ie6.css instead: #image-wrapper { z-index: -1; } Again, you can see the test page here: http://test.learningjquery.com/c21.html --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.comHamish attempted to overcome that problem, but with his version,if a user moves across the menu horizontally, then the details div thatis on display does slide up when a new one appears, so they juststack up. btw, generating the details div with jQuery was a nice touch. Once I get past the operational problems of the setup, I'll have to see about howto get the content into each div. Perhaps some sort of "include"inside each div that pulls in external HTML content.Any ideas on how to keep that menu div open if a user is mousingover it, letting it slide up if a user mouses off of it or letting it slide upif the user mouses over link horizontally without mousing overthe details div? @Hamish Thanks for the reply and the code, Hamish! You can see from my remarks to Karl above, that while your version of thecode does keep the details div open until a user mouses off ofit, it also allows a details div to stay open when a user mouses over the menu links horizontally.There's no trigger to cause the div to slide back up if the usernever mouses over the details div. Any ideas? Rick-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Swedberg Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:52 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.comSubject: [jQuery] Re: Still working out "drop-down div menu"...Hey Rick,I did a little overhaul on your page and got something working. Changed a bit of HTML and CSS along with the jQuery code. CSScoulduse some tweaking still, probably increase the top and bottompaddingon the links (and then you might have to adjust the top of divclass="menu-details"By putting the divs inside each li, it made it a lot easier togeteach one to show when it should. Since the menu-details div isnow inthe page only for the visual effect, I pulled it out of the HTMLand created it via jQuery. Here is the code: $(document).ready(function() { $('<div class="menu-details"></div>').appendTo('#image- wrapper') .add('#ul-index div').hide(); $('#menu-index').hover(function() { $('div.menu-details').slideDown(); }, function() { $('div.menu-details').slideUp(); }) .find('li').hover(function() { $(this).find('div').show(); }, function() { $('div', this).hide(); }); }); And here is the page: http://test.learningjquery.com/c21.html --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote:Hi, all. I'm still trying to work out a drop-down div for my horizontal menu. I've tried various approaches and the closest I've been able to come to the proper animation so far (which still isn't correct) is with this code (written in long-form for now and just for the first two menu items): $(document).ready(function() { $('.menu-details').hide(); $('#a-index').mouseover(function() { var answer = $('#menu-details-index'); if (answer.is(':not visible')) answer.slideDown(); $('#a-index').mouseout(function() { var answer = $('#menu-details-index'); if (answer.is(':visible')) answer.slideUp(); $('#a-buyers').mouseover(function() { var answer = $('#menu-details-buyers'); if (answer.is(':not visible')) answer.slideDown(); $('#a-buyers').mouseout(function() { var answer = $('#menu-details-buyers'); if (answer.is(':visible')) answer.slideUp(); }) }); }); }); }); You can see the results of my efforts so far at http://c21ar.wsm-dev.com . The problems I'm trying to overcome: - the 'drop-down div' works only if the first menu item "Home" is mouse-over first - once the div drops, and I mouse-off the link, the div closes...of course I need it to stay openunless I mouse-off the link or the corresponding drop- down div- after I mouse-over the first two links quite a few times, even slowly, I get an alert errorthat states "Stack overflow at line: 1" What does that meanand can this be overcome or ismy 'drop-down div' menu inherently flawed? I have to refreshthe page to get the menu working again- lastly, but my significantly, I've got to figure out a way tohave the system realize whatcontent should be displayed in the drop-down div based on themenu link that is moused-overWould someone care to show me some code that would help withany of these problems? If this is going to take someone too much time to help out "vacuus persolvo", I'm willing to purchase something off a wish-list or even to pay for some hand- holding.The problem I face is time... I'm working on a fairly extensiveReal Estate site and I need toget past this piece of the puzzle. If I can't solve it soon,I'll just have to go to a regular drop-down menu, which I'd rather avoid. I just haven't come far enough with jQuery to code this myself...it's too complex for me at this point. Thanks! Rick
